Photographer Quotes - Page 7

Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

We're responsible for everything that's included in the frame. We're also responsible for what's not included in the frame. We're responsible for the way we frame the world.

Making any statement of your feelings is risky. It's just like making pictures.

Light makes photography. Embrace light.

Good photography is not about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It's just about seeing. You either see or you don't see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.

One thing that Life and I agreed right from the start was that one war photographer was enough for my family; I was to be a photographer of peace.

I never take photographs myself. I don’t feel like a photographer, more like a recycler

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

Take your camera off automatic. You are the photographer.

For me what photographers say about their photos doesn’t have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many times - for the boring pictures - people have to say so many things about them to show you there is something to them when many times there is nothing.

I get photographers hiding in my bushes. We're way past autographs. We're into being stalked and followed.

I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.

I agree that all good photographs are documents, but I also know that all documents are certainly not good photographs. Furthermore, a good photographer does not merely document, he probes the subject, he 'uncovers' it.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

I like boring things.

If you look very intensely and slowly things will happen that you never dreamed of before.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

Photography starts with the projection of the photographer, his understanding of life and himself into the picture.

I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.

It's always around. You just don't see it.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

The goal for the photographer is be visually articulate.

The most valuable things in a life are a man's memories. And they are priceless.

I do not document anything, I give an interpretation.